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What Was the Rhodesian Bush War?
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Watch TV-CBGB – A Punk Sitcom From 1981
In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews,...
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In November 1982, Billboard reviewed a CBGB-produced cable access show to “include interviews, comedy skits, and live performances”. Stuart Newman, a member of the The Roustabouts, one of the groups featured on the show – along with Idiot Savant, The Hard, Jo Marshall, Shrapnel...
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How Did the Pyramid of Giza Become an Ancient Wonder?
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Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work?
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane: 1970s East London Before Gentrification
Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and...
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Brick Lane in London’s East End is in area of flux. From the road where they used mark bricks and brew beer, the place has been sanctuary to immigrants for centuries and is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. In the 17th century, French Huguenots arrived and brought with...
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What Is Love? Erich Fromm’s Take
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7 Modern Artists Who Worked in Advertising
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure
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Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory
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Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King
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The Boxer Rebellion Explained: Uprising in China
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an island to oneself
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
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Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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The Yellow Trade in Counterfeit Coins
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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How Did Rothko Seek to Transcend the Visible World?
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Where Is Alexander the Great Buried?
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6 Lesser-Known Geoglyphs Outside of Nazca
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Who Was Mahavira? The Founder of Jainism
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Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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What Are the Primary Sources of Information About Emperor Nero?
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10 Powerful Roman Emperor Names Still Used Today
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The Italian Social Republic: What was the Republic of Salò?
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Ancient Marble Floor Restored Underwater in Italy
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Discover Caral-Supe: Cradle of Civilization in the Americas
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What’s the Biblical Background to the Sword in the Stone?
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11 Myths About the Greek God Zeus
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How Did a Priest’s Day at the Temple of Ra Look?
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‘All His Spies’ and ‘Spycraft’ review
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TheCollector
The Rise of the Minamoto: Japan’s First Shogunate
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Was Portugal’s Carnation Revolution Inevitable?
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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over a year ago
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Bicycle, released an Uxntal playground. See Varvara riding a...
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Diego: The First Escaped Slave to Almost Circumnavigate the World
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The Birthplace of Renaissance Art: Must-Visit Galleries in Florence
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What Is the Categorical Imperative?
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The Myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha: The Great Flood in Greek Mythology
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Lower Manhattan in 1973
These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May...
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These Documerica photographs by Wil Blanche of lower Manhattan, New York City, were taken in May 1973 in as part of the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which partnered with professional photographers to take pictures of America. The project collected more...
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Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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The Siege of Budapest in WWII: Everything You Need to Know
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Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed?
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The Ancient Ozempic
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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What Are Conlangs?
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Sparta and… Scotland?
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What Did Fascist Architecture Look Like?
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Philosophy and Children
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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What Is First Corinthians About?
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Cyberattacks Hits Museums and Causes Online Collections Drop
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6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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7 Unusual Writing Systems From Around the World & How They Developed
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Overcoming Bias
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Lost Caravaggio Painting Unveiled at the Prado
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Who Was Susan Sontag?
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What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Why Is the Ship of Theseus Paradox Still Relevant Today?
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The Brink of Nuclear War: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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When Was the Era of Japan’s Bakufu?
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A history of the west African diaspora in Arabia and Jerusalem before 1900
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Why Was Marcel Duchamp Obsessed With Chess?
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What Is Platonic Love in Simple Words?
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
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“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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How Did Johannes Vermeer Depict Women?
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What Was the Atheism Dispute?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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Huacas and Apus: Sacred Landscapes of the Inca
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Parody
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The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Wiktopher, added back corrected chapters 1-7 to...
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A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
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a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
TheCollector
The Devastating Dust Bowl of the Great Depression
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Patterns in Humanity
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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Nietzsche’s Crusade Against the Philosophers
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Is Christine de Pizan the Western World’s First Feminist Author?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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What Are the Iconographic Elements of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism?
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The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
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The Coming of the Unconscious: JG Ballard’s Guide To Surrealism In Science Fiction
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In 1966, readers of issue 164 of New Worlds magazine (1946 – 1997) could enjoy writer JG Ballard’s (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)review of La Jetée, the time-travel short by Chris Marker about time and memory which was receiving its first London screenings and his essay ‘The...
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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‘Theoderic the Great’ by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer review
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When technology follows art
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From optics to machine learning, artists have played an important, if underrated, role in the history of technology
Dreams of Space -...
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Today is a series of school spelling workbooks. What does that have to do with space? They chose an aerospace theme for their series of books and since spaceflight was the trend for children they "branded" them. Truly these are pretty dull books even with a couple of space...
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Did Jesus Christ Really Exist?
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
7 months ago
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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Exploring Francis Bacon’s Black Triptych Series
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The Titans: The Greek Gods Before the Olympians
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James Simon: Art Collector & Owner of The Nefertiti Bust
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
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In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
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Judith Leyster: The Most Famous Woman of the Dutch Golden Age
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Who Were the Top Axis Commanders of World War II?
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Original ‘Keep Calm’ Posters Set to Sell for Thousands at Auction
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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Who Won the Battle of Antietam?
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Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa
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What Are Emblemata in Art and Literature?
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From Reverence to Revulsion: The Life of Robert Mugabe
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Banksy Confirms More London Animals—And Their Meaning
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The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909
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The postcard above is over an ‘Amorous Monkey (Iroke zaru)’ attempting to undress a Japanese woman against her will. It’s an unusual tableaux. But then a lot about Japanese portrayals of sex is unfamiliar to all but the most adventurous Westerner (this Japanese sex guide and rope...
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Hidden History
The Ancient Egyptian Game of Mehen
Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But...
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Mehen may be the oldest true board game in the world, and dates back to at least 3000 BCE. But recent study has completely changed the way we think about this game. History In 1861, French archaeologists Auguste Mariette and Jacques de Morgan found a tomb at Saqqara that was...
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
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Who Is Chiron in Greek Mythology?
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History Today Feed
‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Who Was Origen of Alexandria?
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egyptian Tomb in Luxor
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Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
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Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
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Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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The Hidden Meaning of Plato’s Cave Allegory
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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When Was the Battle of Guadalcanal?
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World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London
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African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom.
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
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4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory)
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First Nations of the Canadian Subarctic: A Brief History
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Tolkien and Plato
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Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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3 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
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The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
Trying to Understand...
The West is Weak Where it Matters ...
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a year ago
...and some of the consequences are not obvious.
TheCollector
Who Was Walt Whitman?
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11 months ago
History Today Feed
Sex Before Sex Education
Sex Before Sex Education
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The Birth of Ovid
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A muslim kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands: the history of Ifat and Adal ca. 1285-1520.
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6 months ago
During the late Middle Ages, the northern Horn of Africa was home to some of the continent's most powerful dynasties, whose history significantly shaped the region's social landscape. The history of one of these dynasties, often referred to as the Solomonids, has been...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
9 months ago
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
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What Are the Characteristics of Italian Renaissance Art?
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3 months ago
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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8 months ago
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Who Were the 6 Most Famous Artists of the Protestant Reformation?
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6 months ago
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What Was the Siege of Jerusalem?
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for March 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom.
100r.co, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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Naumachia: The Gladiatorial Naval Battles of Ancient Rome
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Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
a year ago
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
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Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million
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a month ago
Trying to Understand...
Their Enemies The Russians
But what about the rest of us?
a year ago
But what about the rest of us?
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Early Christianity
12 months ago
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Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
6 months ago
Ronald Reagan’s European Tour
JamesHoare
Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:11
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Albert Speer: Architect, Minister, and Hitler’s Closest Friend
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5 months ago
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About England?
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a year ago
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Egyptian Demons: Guardians and Wanders
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a year ago
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Horse Archers: The Feared Unit of Ancient and Medieval Warfare
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a year ago
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10 Must-Visit Historical Landmarks in the US Midwest
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
5 days ago
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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World’s Oldest Figurative Art Found in Indonesian Cave
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5 months ago
African History...
The stone ruins of South Africa: a history of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Dzata. ca. 1000-1750CE.
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone...
3 months ago
The dzimbabwe ruins of south-eastern Africa are often described as the largest collection of stone monuments in Africa south of Nubia.
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KAWS: 11 Things You Should Know
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5 months ago
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8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Podcasts
11 months ago
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6 Surrealist Techniques You Probably Haven’t Heard of
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Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
What Government Governs Best?
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
a year ago
Is Democracy Still Our Best Bet?
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Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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9 months ago
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From Wartime Reserve to Pop Culture: What Is the History of ‘Keep Calm and Carry On?’
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7 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960)
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
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8 Things to See in Tokyo: A Guide For Art Enthusiasts
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8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Dry Toilet Installation
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer...
over a year ago
The work is done. Building a dry toilet was more work than we had anticipated, but we still prefer it over the ready-made models. We learned tons doing it, and now our toilet is perfectly suited to our space. The pandemic has pushed more people into boat and van living (to travel...
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What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes?
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7 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
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After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on...
over a year ago
After 15 days on the water, we were to get into port. It was the 27th of June, and we'd left Opua on the 12th. We hove-to for the night, waiting for sunrise before entering Savusavu bay. 'Entering a strange harbor at night is for morons and fools,' people told us. We didn't...
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Three Rubens Paintings to Stay in the U.K., Advisory Panel Rules
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9 months ago
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Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
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Who Was Eusebius?
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When and Why Did People Start Using Coins?
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a year ago
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4 Theocracies That Exist in the World Today
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a year ago
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MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden
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7 months ago
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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4 months ago
Res Obscura
A very deep history of Halloween
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
a month ago
Or, how far back can historical analysis take us?
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Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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9 months ago
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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10 months ago
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What Was Baruch Spinoza’s Concept of Freedom?
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8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
11 months ago
... and the Fall of the Republic
TheCollector
What Are Three Theories of Animal Ethics?
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a year ago
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10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit
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Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums
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a year ago
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
7 months ago
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim
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2 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Animals of the Ancient World
6 months ago
Animals of the Ancient World
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Picasso to Lead Emily Fisher Landau’s Collection at Sotheby’s
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a year ago
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What Is the Gettier Problem?
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a year ago
African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
10 months ago
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
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Understanding Gnostic Salvation in Christian Gnosticism
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Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
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What Are Emperor Nero’s Contributions to Rome?
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10 months ago
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Utagawa Hiroshige: 10 Works From the Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e
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9 Inventions We Owe to the Ancients
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Stuck in God’s Knowledge: Foreknowledge & Free Will
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a year ago
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Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye
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9 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
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4 Works Inspired By Da Vinci’s The Last Supper
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a year ago
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
6 months ago
Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 – 2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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6 months ago
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‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
TheCollector
What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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a week ago
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Is The Kuleshov Effect & Why Is It So Efficient?
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a year ago
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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a year ago
Trying to Understand...
So Where Do We Go From Here?
That's a good question.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
5 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
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Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook : How To Seduce With An Omelette (1965)
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton...
6 months ago
Len Deighton’s Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka ‘cookstrips’) when Leighton was a student at London’s Royal Academy and St Martin’s art school, and living with classmate Bob Hyde. Aimed at “an audience of men unskilled at knowing their way around the...
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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6 months ago
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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10 Historic Towns in Southwest France Brimming With Joie de Vivre
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5 Infamous Pretenders in Russian History
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2 months ago
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On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
10 months ago
On the Spot: Courtney J. Campbell
JamesHoare
Wed, 02/21/2024 - 13:10
Global Inequality...
The three German fears
Historical origins of the malaise
a year ago
Historical origins of the malaise
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Was He Really “The Great Emancipator”? A Look at Lincoln’s Presidency
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3 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the...
a year ago
This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a...
TheCollector
Oskar Kokoschka’s Strange Obsession With Alma Mahler
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3 months ago
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Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW)
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who...
a month ago
These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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Archangels of the Apocrypha: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology
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Notre Dame Unveils Plans for Contemporary Stained Glass
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The Controversial Death of Ana Mendieta: Here’s What We Know
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11 months ago
Global Inequality...
The politics of physiocracy
Quesnay and China
11 months ago
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Freedom of Speech in the United States: An Overview
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a month ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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The History of the Tomato: The Fruit that Spread Round the World
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8 months ago
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Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World
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9 months ago
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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3 months ago
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4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art
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a year ago
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An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
a year ago
An Uyghur Chieftain in China’s Civil War
j.hoare
Thu, 12/21/2023 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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a year ago
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
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a year ago
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Francisco Goya’s Descent Into Madness: The Disturbing Black Paintings
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8 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIb:
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at...
3 months ago
This is the second half of the third and final part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at Paradox Interactives ancient grand strategy game, Imperator: Rome, which covers (inter alia) the period of the collapse of the Roman Republic, which we generally call the Late...
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The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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4 Amazing Women From History You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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7 months ago
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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9 months ago
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Thomas Gainsborough vs. Joshua Reynolds: 6 Facts About Their Rivalry
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10 months ago
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How an Orthodox Patriarch Became “Protestant”
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2 months ago
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Weekend Roundup
Ancient Philosophy for Children
a year ago
Ancient Philosophy for Children
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Who’s in the Tomb?
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
7 months ago
A Macedonian Mystery: The Tombs of Aigai
Classical Wisdom
Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
a month ago
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
TheCollector
Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum
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6 months ago
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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a year ago
Wrong Side of...
American polarisation
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
a month ago
The menace of bipartisanship has been defeated
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Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions?
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11 months ago
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Who Is Banksy? A Closer Look at the Famed Anonymous Street Artist
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5 months ago
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Who Was Boudica, the Warrior Queen of the Iceni?
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5 months ago
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Rijksmuseum Begins Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’
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Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII?
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11 months ago
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What Is the Gospel of Truth?
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a month ago
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8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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Bull of Nimrud Replica Goes Back to Iraq
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10 months ago
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Winners of the Black and White Photo Awards 2024
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and...
2 months ago
What is it about black and white pictures that makes people look better? Is is because black and white hints and pulls you in whereas colour can distract and reflect? LensCulture magazine celebrates black and white photography with is 2024 Black and White awards. “The enduring...
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Candomblé: 10 Facts About the Afrobrazilian Religion
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9 months ago
African History...
A history of the Damagaram sultanate of Zinder: ca. 1730-1899.
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
a year ago
Politics, Guns, and Trade in the pre-colonial Sahel
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